Mini-science projects

At the moment these are all still future projects. Once I have tried them out I will update the information.

• CD Hovercraft - there is a good Questacon CD Hovercraft page
• Spinning Balloon - very simple activity to make a balloon spin as it deflates
• Roto-copter toy
• Spinning Blimps from Exploratorium
• Planetary icosahedra from Math Craft

And here are some good sites that most of these came from in case you just want to explore yourself:

• Exploratorium Science Explorer
• Questacon Science Squad Activities
• PBS Kids Zoom Activities
• Steve Spangler Science - don't be put off by the shop, there are free ideas for experiments here!
• Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab - seems to be nicely organised, you can sort by degree of difficulty, for instance. An example of a really simple static electricity activity is called Waxing Poetic